Alcohol. Et. al...

You may be opposed to liquor in general, but I will say, in my experience, using alcohol as a pain killer or distraction from it is less likely to result in:

1) Class action lawsuits against major pharma companies (i.e. just watch your television for a while)

2) Major biological problems (i.e. let's just say maybe you can't use the bathroom because a popular RX narcotic includes this side effect, that freaks you out, because what if you were like this the rest of your life? and you never had this problem before this med...so you stop...)

3) Addiction, because, let's face it, you really aren't in NEED of this thing, just what it provides. Because the people you hear becoming addicted don't REALLY need it, they just have no pain tolerance, as opposed to you, who are the expert, living with it 24/7. So you don't NEED it, it is just a choice, to not feel the pain, say, right NOW.

Just sayin'. In my very limited experience with narcotics (i.e. meds) and alcohol, the latter seems less dangerous in moderate quantities, as opposed to the former, which can cripple you quickly without warning. If you have any question about this opinion, just note the recent commercials about what is it, bladder mesh lawsuits? Or just try to p** after you take ONE tylenol with codeine. And then imagine, what happens to your bladder after1 year or 10 of them? 


Then read the book "Peter the Great" by Robert Massie. And go to see St. Catherine's Summer Palace in St. Petersburg, where you can see the (real or replicated) 5-legged chair mentioned in it. After you will get done reading this book, you will see new validity to my point. Although, when in Russia, I saw plenty of dangerous drinking. Which may also invalidate my point. However. Let me just ask you: how many lawsuits did you see against Budweiser this year?

Lastly. Because I am a thorough sort, if there is any remote chance that the government is colluding with pharma companies to 1) conduct biowarefare on our citizens or Canadian citizens, and 2) give pharma companies profits by "fixing" the problem, I fully intend to deny pharmas all the profits that I can.

Additionally and most finally, I love the Budweiser horses. And frogs.


There. I rest my case. 

This ad not sponsored by Bud.

Yup, the guai protocol works...but what about the RBC mis-shapage?

In my last post I raved about how a new ingredient EPO (Evening Primrose Oil) might reshape blood cells - that can't fit through tiny capillaries - and lessen FMS pain.

The problem is - that multiple events exist. And none are "wrong." (Sound like your workplace? ;)

Blood cells do get misshapen. I know this because when I exercise and oxygen flows to my body again, pain is reduced by 1/2 to 3/4 and I get GOOD feelings.

But also...I have been taking EPO generously ever since Sunday when I read about it, and I am in intense pain because my body still will not process salicylates. Yes. So that means that BOTH the guai protocol as proposed by Dr. St. Armand & the RBC misshaping by Dr. Les Simpson are true.

I just went to the chiropractor & was nearly unable to be adjusted at all because my muscles were in such pain & tension.

So this means - I will lower my dose of EPO to one per day, and see if I can take that with the TrueHope EMP (which already has Ginko in it, and other natural ingredients).

In addition I have been putting multiple sources of salicylates on or in my body, what really set me over the edge I think. This weekend it was 90 degrees, and we went to the Charles River to cool off (ha ha) so I was using natural-oil-laden sunscreen for multiple days.

I think my liver just threw up its little red hands & said, I can't eliminate all these phosphates, so suck it up. And...my muscles did.  Owwwww!

In other news, my niece tells me that a low-fat diet is proven to aid MS patients. And in the news today, a popular MS drug fails to control symptoms.

Duh.

The body is made of natural substances. What do chemists think they can do with that? Craziness.

More to come...

Fibromyalgia & Red Blood Cell Mishap-age

Somehow, in this high-speed digital world, it took 12 years for me to learn there is a physical symptom for FMS that shows up in blood tests and can prove you have it. I love my doctor (he is also super cute) but even he didn't know this, as he told me a few years ago you could see MS in medical tests, but FMS is invisible. Not so.

Dr. Les Simpson from New Zealand discovered that the blood cells of people with CFS, FMS and some other diagnoses are misshapen. Seems the cholesterol gets removed from them, and they get the wrong shape so they can't fit through the capillaries. They can't carry oxygen to parts of body, primarily the muscles & nerves, so - voila nerve pain. You can read more here. 

Credit: Biomedical Optics Express

This is not so surprising, considering that even stress will misshape them. Check out this site, which hosts this visual of what stress alone can do to blood cells. 

Also interesting to note as physical proof for CFS, one poor victim was shown to have scar tissue in her brain, possibly due to lack of oxygen. I say victim, because I firmly believe these diagnoses are all the result of mycoplasma biowarfare, which involves the exchange/agreement of the US and Canada to conduct experiments on each others' citizens. For more on the covert testing of mycoplasma, check out this site also:

(If you are reticent to believe the rationale behind this thought stream, check out this site, which shows again physical evidence that CFS exists, and then questions why CFS patients have a virus, and tend to get cancer...They ask "What is this virus, and where did it come from?" Perhaps here?)

So a bigger picture is emerging.

Equally disturbing is that doctors don't know about this. By choice! The site I referenced in the link above states that no doctors show up to Dr. Simpson's lectures on the topic. Why would this be? I am befuddled why our doctors (even my own, when I told him) ignore government biochemical experiments and their effects on the body. The drug companies may be paying them off to prescribe meds, but are they brainwashing them also, so they completely close their minds to reality? Another doctor referenced in this site apparently denied a connection between the mycoplasma and CFS, although the patient's mother had clearly heard otherwise.

Also unsure why the media doesn't acknowledge it. As an experiment, I may send this information around to some editors and see if there are any whistleblowers around. After all, the government openly admits doing these poisonings, yet nobody seems to care.

Fast forward to my care. So yesterday I picked up the recommended Evening Primrose Oil & took some. I actually feel better today, but it may be a fluke, so I am not celebrating. Yet. Because of course, it contains boucoup salicylates, and my back will likely start to hurt like crazy. But the Primrose Oil is supposed to help reshape my little blood cells so they can go on their merry way again.

What else gets blood cell shapes back to normal so they can continue their oxygen-laden journeys? Lack of stress, exercise, B-12, some medication he mentions that I need to research, and a couple other things. Sounds somewhat like some stuff I have already been doing for years. My primary way to lower pain has always been exercise, or anything that increases oxygen.

I had already figured out the link between pain & oxygen years ago. I have always known that anything that increases oxygen lowers pain. So now it is very interesting to hear there is a medical reason.

So this is the start of my foray into a new self-care regimen. It includes some old & some new:

1. Low stress
2. Daily exercise
3. Vitamin B-12 by Jarrow (I can tell these work, I have used them for a few months)
4. Guaifenisen protocol (For last 12+ years)
5. EMPower by True Hope (I just receive a few months shipment yesterday)
6. Evening Primrose Oil (6 weeks is supposed to show if it works or not)

Happy blood cells, here we come! :)

Loss is a Gift - An Unusual Poem

Blessings are big.

Blessings are small.

Some of them you might not notice at all.

Instead you notice them when they are gone, 

And mostly when you start to bawl.

When tears roll down

And eyes squinch up

And your nose turns red as a rubber ball

You notice a blessing you had but lost

And you forget all the others that still exist.

Can you walk? You are lucky.

Can you see? Lucky too.

Can you wipe your red nose that looks like a kazoo?

Your arms are working, your fingers move. 

You noticed you cried, your brain is not a sieve.

You remembered you had it, your cortex is in tact 

(You're not even sure if the cortex does that!)

Your reasoning is sound, you are THAT aware

You now know that you have it "up there."

For only those with memory forget

With reason comes judgement, and sensing a threat

Your anger is normal, but to feel it takes feelings......

Now, wiping your tears takes on a whole new meaning.

Next time you wonder why you're not Tebow,
Nor Gisele, Obama, Beyonce or Leo,

Ask yourself if you can wipe your tears

And feel lucky that you are still in the years

Where your body works, and your mind still commands it

Someday you may have it all go away

That day may be closer to today

Than you'd like to think

(And others would too).

Loss is a gift.

It reminds us we had "it."

So celebrate gently

Your blessings disguised.

Superfood = Superlife?

Every day new superfoods emerge. I have my kitchen cupboards full of them. One of the latest is mulberry leaves. These are supposed to make you lose weight. Personally, I prefer the mulberries instead. So do silkworms, so I am in good company. Also recently exploited for weight-loss supplements are lychis (yuck). Then there are quinoa and chia seeds, the breakfast of Aztec and Inca champions. And cocoa. Then there are goji berries and coconut-anything. I can eat a whole meal of superfoods, if I want to. This is not even counting the normal anti-oxidant foods we already know about, like blueberries & raspberries. (Wait, they are supposed to be weight-loss food too, right? I see a trend!)


All this superizing of food means that finally the food industry is acknowledging the value of natural food as the missing link to providing the building blocks that our body really thrives on.

But the most missing link of ALL, the original superfood, was the Tree of Life. Yes, according to Old Testament history there is one food that carried the secret to longevity. It was located in the first Garden, Eden, and had the magical ability to make you live forever.

[Picture credit: Gustav Klimt]

We were banned from eating that tree, after Eve ate the Fateful Apple, so people like me wouldn't have to live forever in chronic pain. God then said man would eat the fruit of the ground, nuts, grains & vegetables, instead. However, just the fact that a live-forever substance existed is a good reminder that what comes out of the ground has the power to heal us & keep us alive for a very long time.

No natural fuel, no go.

So the next time you eat, think about your food & how it nourishes you. What nutrients in this particular food make your life better by eating it? Natural foods may no longer make you live forever, but they can sustain the life you do have a lot better than factory-created munchies.

Don't believe me? Just ask Popeye...

Could there be chronic Hope?

Hope is a 4-letter word for those of us with chronic pain. The reason is - it is chronic. There ain't no escaping it for long...And we are sick to death of people telling us we will get better. God will heal us. Blah blah blah. We want to shout 4-letter words at them, and they are not hope!

But, some people do have hope. And I love to celebrate them. 

"A Promise of Hope" is the book written by Autumn Stringham. I read it today, with tears in my eyes, and a good feeling that somewhere, people are finding hope & health. My mom sent me the vitamins & minerals referenced in the book, EMPower. (Some are called Plus at the end.)

I am starting these vitamins today because I have long suffered from a history of deep dark depression that leads to suicidal thoughts. I have also, clearly, been long affected by chronic nerve pain, exacerbated by anxiety. I am hoping for some relief.

I will let you know...

You shall not surely die. Really? Dammit...

I talked with a friend today about eternal life. How many of you with chronic pain would like this? Please post to my blog. Assuming there are NONE of you, including myself, I will share another tidbit. My grandmother, who I never heard express pain, willed to die. God bless her generous soul. She who gave up life as she knew it to fulfill my grandfather's dream and open a school in San Pedro Sula, Honduras (now called CEA for short)...got tired of living. At about 100 years old, she had had enough. With only one living friend from her childhood, she decided to stop eating. My family couldn't let go, so she lingered a couple more years until, mercifully, she passed on. We all mourned her and celebrated her legacy, as it was a remarkable one.

Which of you would have been the devil to keep her alive without pain, and without friends? Let us say she had Pain With Joy? Which of you would have been such a bastard to keep her alive against her will, for either reason? 

And yet, let me ask you what you think of God. When Eve ate the forbidden tree, he knew that now all of us would love with pain and suffering. After all,  it was the Tree of Good and Evil. Since she already knew about good, what do you think came out of eating that tree?

Yes, you know it. Evil.

How blessed is it to live forever with evil? An eternal life of that would be pure misery. Would a God of love like that? Not really.

So who said you will never die? Hmmmm.

The Serpent.

The devil.

In a world of pain, death, temporary removal, is a blessing. Me, I rather agree with God. Only in a world made new, with no pain or suffering, would I ever want to live forever. I would never wish life as we know it eternally upon even my worst enemy.

I do look forward to a resurrection to a life without pain. In that world, eternal life is a blessing, not a curse. But the devil does not offer that. Only God does.

So the next time you judge the desire of a chronic-pain-filled or elderly person to live, think to yourself: am I wishing them a blessing or a curse?

"He sleeps." said Jesus about Lazarus.

I will wish that also, when the pain is too much. Only with a painfree world do I want to live forever...just like my grandmother.